PRiLA's Daily Rantings

Thursday, July 14, 2016

Oh man has it been a while. When did life become so hectic that I forgot that I even had this blog???

So, how has life been since I last posted?

Well, let's just see here. It's been what, 2 years....

I've been married now almost 3 years. No, no. No children yet. We do however, have several pets. A cat, 5 guinea pigs and a hermit crab. Yes, that's right. I said 5 guinea pigs. Maybe I can get around to doing a pet post.

We've purchased a bigger home just recently. (May of this year) We are slowly settling into it.

That is about it for now... I will slowly try to work on some more posts, asap.

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

I've decided to start couponing. Now, I'm not going to try to do the TLC-Extreme-Couponing-TV-show-kinda-thing. Besides, not all of that is real anyways. They don't tell you the amount of money they spent gathering those coupons. Some get them from coupon clipping services. Now, I work at a gas station, we have 3 different Sunday papers in my area. Well, it just so happens that I can preview those papers before I buy them AND I can get 1 of each of the inserts because our delivery people love me so much. They leave us a copy of the paper to read and I get the coupon inserts. So, with that said, I will go through and use the coupons that are great deals. By great deals, I mean at least 50% off.

I will be going on my first couponing haul today. And, when I get back I will blog the results of my haul. I will be doing 2 different transactions. In one transaction, I plan to save at least 75%. In the other, I plan to save... what? You guessed it, 50% or more depending on tax.

Sunday, October 27, 2013

While 2012, had its down sides...my dad having surgery and my aunt passing away...2013, what was supposed to be a new, better year; a happy year, well...the universe had other plans for me.

Now, I'm not posting this blog for people to feel sorry for me. I'm simply posting because I haven't in a while and believe it or not, this blog has, if nothing else, been my only way to keep up with my own life.

On January 15, our house caught on fire. It destroyed the whole back half of it but thankfully, it never spread to my room.
On February 4, we found my granddaddy in the bathroom. He passed away from a heart attack.

Things were going good for a little but. We were able to find my parents a mobile home but, it was a fixer upper. We spent the next 4 months getting it ready to move into. We also started on mine getting it ready to move into in September because the fiancé and I were getting married September 13th.
As if planning a wedding and fixing up 2 mobile homes wasn't enough stress on us, on August 10, the day of my bridal shower, we get a call that they had found my brother dead on the side of the road in the city where he lived. He didn't love far from a had station so he walked there a lot. He was 39 years old and he passed from a heart attack.
So, September 13 rolls around, the day of our wedding. It was a very good day, I was happy, my decorations turned out wonderful thanks to a very special aunt and cousin. But, I was also sad because 3 people that I expected to be there couldn't make it. I know they were somewhere watching and making my day very special to me.

And that, has been my year so far. Let's see if the rest can be better.

Thursday, December 20, 2012

I went to the doctor Sunday because a few days before that, I had started itching and broke out in a rash under my arm and on my back. I thought I might have been bit by an insect of some sort but, the doctoer there said that I have shingles. I thought that only older people could get them. I was aware that shingles are caused by the chicken pox virus but, not knowing that anybody could get them shows how uneducated I was on the subject of shingles. So, I got medicine for it Sunday. I've been taking it ever since. I've had a few problems. Mainly, itching and shooting pain through the are that the rashes are on. From what I've read, I've done fairly well with them. Factors for that possibly include my age, how quickly we caught it and the care I'm doing for it. I've been taking my medicine as I was supposed to and it seems to be clearing up quickly. I know that I'm going to have issues with it for quite sometime. I had chicken pox when I was 5 or 6 years old. So, I've went 20 years without shingles. I'm hoping that I can go another 20 years or, better yet, the rest of my life, without getting them again. I will be finished taking my medicine the day after Christmas. Let's hope that all this clears up before then.

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

For the last year or so, I've had a journal. It's a small composition notebook that I try my best to write down thoughts/questions/daily happenings in. There's times when I skip days, even months. Here lately, I've began to journal quite a bit more than I have EVER. I've researched journal topics online to help me. I wanted to start a Goddess Workbook my Leonie Dawson but I haven't got the money to do that right now. So, in order to help myself figure things out, I decided to try to write about a different topic each day or every few days. I'll post my topic here when I can so that ya'll (whoever reads this) can journal yourself. :) I might even post my thoughts/feelings on those topics.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Yesterday, after coming home from my trip to TN, I cleaned out the 20 gallon tank that my brother used to have his snake in and proceeded to set up a new home for my hermit crabs. It's nothing fancy as of right now. They seem to like it. I also brought home 3 new shells for them and Herman, the biggest crab, has already changed shells. I can never get a good shot of them because they truly are hermit crabs. Scooter is the only crab that will come out of his shell regularly. I'm hoping the new crabitat will perk them up and make them a little more lively.